Gunmen, bombers hit local Iraqi gov't compound

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BAGHDAD - Heavily armed gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a local Iraqi government building in western Anbar province on Tuesday and took around 15 people hostage including a police chief, police sources said.

Casualties from the attack -initiated by two suicide bombers- were not immediately clear, and the Iraqi army had surrounded the compound, the sources said.

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